Department of English

Courses

• ENG 203 World Literature
• ENG 303 Studies in World Literature
• ENG 495 Language and Literature (Capstone)
• ENG 616 World Literature in English

Research Pursuits

• Contemporary cross-Mediterranean migrations in literature, photography, and film
• Contemporary South African literature in English
• Colonialism and Postcoloniality in Gibraltar

Select Publications

• "Teaching Moroccan Literature of Migration.” Chapter in Teaching Literature from Today’s Middle East. Ed. Allen Webb. New York: Routledge, 2011
• “‘Dulcie Longs for the Comfort of the Quotidian’: The Place of Everyday Life in Zoe Wicomb’s David’s Story.” Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 23.2 (2011): 127-36.
• “‘Dis poem vex bout apartheid’: Representations of South Africa in West Indian Poetry.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, July, 44 (2009): 107-122
• "Ingrid de Kok."  Essay on the South African poet in A Companion to 20^th Century British Poetry. New York: Facts on File. 2008.
• "Practicing poetry in an interregnum: poets in post-liberation South Africa." Winter 2006. Available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev
• "Excursions into Everyday Life" Postmodern Culture 14.3 (2004). Available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/toc/pmc14.3.html
• "Of Border-Crossing Gnoseology and Other Post-Epistemologies"  The New Centennial Review 1:3 (2001): 325-343.
• "From Fortress Colony to Finance Center: Nation-Making in Gibraltar." The Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 28:1-2. (2001): 9-25.

Education

• B.A., Spanish and Russian Studies, Polytechnic of Central London, UK
• M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
• Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin